Whichever Chinatown you’re drawn to for Year of the Dog celebrations, you can be overwhelmed by choice – until now, that is… Here our most well-travelled tastemakers spill their insider secrets on Chinatowns from Sydney to San Francisco.

Mix a country cottage, a gastropub and an art gallery – then throw in a controversial character or two – and you have Artist Residence Oxfordshire. Here's the five-room boutique hotel outside of London that's making waves.

Olivia von Halle is used to dressing fashion’s front-row favourites – Rihanna, Kate, Cara et al – and now she has bedecked our brand-new gift card in something suitably glamourous. We caught up with the posh-pyjama pioneer to talk travel…